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8-9 ‘The future splendor of this Temple will be greater than the splendor of the first one! For I have plenty of silver and gold to do it! And here I will give peace,’[a] says the Lord.”

10 In early December, in the second year of the reign of King Darius, this message came from the Lord through Haggai the prophet:

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:8 I will give peace, i.e., peace with God through Christ who, 500 years later, came often to this Temple.

‘The silver is mine and the gold(A) is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory(B) of this present house(C) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,(D)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

Blessings for a Defiled People

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month,(E) in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai:

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